Russian Literature Week

The April Russian Literature Week is taking to the streets of London to educate and inform literature lovers on the fantastic classic and new works from Russia.

Waterstone's Piccadilly is hosting a whole range of free events during the week including the following:

Beyond Moscow: New Russian Literature in the Provinces
Monday April 14th -  8pm
Discovering brilliant new writing in Russia's expanses. Speakers: Olga Slavnikova, winner of the Russian Booker Prize 2006, Natalia  Ivanova, literary critic, Irina Prokhorova, NLO publisher, Ravil Bukharaev, BBC correspondent, poet and translator, and Alexander Gavrilov, editor in chief of the "Knizhnoe obozrenie" (Book Review)

Lev Rubenstein, Zinovy Zinik
Tuesday April 15 - 8pm
Join our in conversation event with Lev Rubenstein, winner of the prestigious Andrey Bely prize for "One Rouble and a Bottle of Vodka", and Zinovy Zinik, London based writer and BBC broadcaster. In Russian and English.

Natalia Ivanova - Doctor Zhivago
Wednesday April 16th - 8pm
Join Natalia Ivanova, the authoritative biographer of Pasternak, as she presents a documentary film about one of the greatest Russian writers of the last century

Emily Lygo, Valentina Polukhina - The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry - Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Thursday April 17th -  8pm
Join us for poetry readings by Russian poets! Introduced by Emily Lygo and Valentina Polukhina

Find out more about Russian Literature Week and events at Waterstones.

How to get there

Underground: The nearest tube station is Piccadilly Circus.

Bus: 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 38, 88, 94, 139, 159, 453.